Colloquia Michaelmas term 2016

The Colloquium series is the main opportunity for members of the Faculty, researchers from other departments, and the general public to come together and hear papers on all aspects of music research, given by distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad. Colloquia are held on Wednesday afternoons in the Recital Room of the Faculty of Music, West Road. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please arrive at 4:50pm for a 5:00pm start. Papers are followed by a discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.

Wednesday, 12 October 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Professor Nicholas Marston
University of Cambridge

‘Nur ein Gleichnis’: Heinrich Schenker and the Path to ‘Likeness’

Wednesday, 19 October 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Dr Delia Casadei
University of Cambridge

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Professor Robert Adlington
University of Nottingham

What can democracy mean for music?

Wednesday, 2 November 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Dr Helen Deeming
Royal Holloway, University of London

Wednesday, 9 November 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Dr Bettina Varwig
King’s College London

‘Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut’: Early Modern Physiologies and Metaphors of the Heart

Wednesday, 16 November 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Professor Giuseppe Gerbino
Columbia University

Metaphors of Cognition: Visual Imagination in 16th-century Music

Monday, 21 November 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Wort Lecture: Professor George Lewis
Columbia University

Black Liveness Matters: Karel Capek meets Blind Tom

Wednesday, 23 November 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Wort Lecture: Professor George Lewis
Columbia University

From Network Bands to Ubiquitous Computing: Rich Gold and the Social Aesthetics of Interactivity

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
5:00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Dr Davinia Caddy
University of Auckland

Picturing the Paris Salome, May 1907